5
COkN PRODUCTION
UPPED' IN LATEST
CROP PREDiGTION
Present Outlook For 3,196,
977 Bushels; Wheat Out
look In Slight Reduction.
Washington, Oct. 11 U.R)
The agriculture department to
day predicted that the 1944 corn j
crop will total 3,196,977,000
bushels as compared with 3,101,
319,000 bushels forecast a
month ago and a 1943 harvest
of 3,076,159,000 bushels.
The report was based on con
ditions as of Oct. 1. The crop
reporting board estimated an
average acre yield of 38.2 bush-
elw, compared Kh 81.8 Bien
els indicated a month ago and
the 1943 average of 32.5 bushels.-
Less Wheat
The overall 1944 wheat crop
i now Indicated at 1,108,881
bushels, compared with 1,115,
402,000 bushels Indicated a
month ago and a harvest of 836,
298,000 bushels in 1943, the
board said.
The wheat total Included the
unchanged estimate of a 786,-124,000-bushel
winter wheat
harvest plus a spring wheat
crop of 322,757,000 bushels,
compared with 329,278,000
bushels estimated on Sept. 1
and 306,692,000 bushels in 1943.
"If the weather does not un
duly interfere with the tremend
ous harvesting job that lies
ahead, this year's crops may
rank with those of 1942 as the
greatest ever produced in' this
country," the board said. '
More Oats
The oat crop is now placed at
1,192,254,000 bushels as com
pared with 1,190,540,000 indi
cated on Sept. 1 and 1943 pro
duction of 1,143,867,000 bushels.
The board made these other'
predictions, listing the indicat
ed October production, the Sept.
1 indicated production, and the
1943 harvest respectively:
Barley 187,091,000 bushels,
290,036,000, 322,187,000.
Grain sorghums, 151,551,000;
149,962,000; 103,168,000.
Soybeans 185,070,000; 179,
024,000; 195,762,000. '
Sugar Cane 6,303,000 tons;
6,166,000; 6,510,000.
Sugar beet 7,239,000 tons; 7,
204,000; 6,522,000.
Hops 47,250,000 pounds; 46,
765,000; 42,297,000.
Rice 70,010,000 bushels; 67,
95,0,000; 70,025,000.
Commercial apples, 21,687,
000 bushels; 22,633,000; 89,050,
000. Peaches, 29.536,000; 29,225,
000; 24,585,000.
Successful Farming magazine
suggests that if you send Just
one box to your serviceman that
you include several smaller, in
dividually wrapped packages
inside the larger one. Five
small packages are more fun
than just one.
Gales Will Lead
F e r u m At War
Food Conference
W. A. Gates of the Medford
Groceterias will go to Portland
this week-end where he is sched
uled to conduct a forum discus
sion for the third annual con
vention and war food conference
of the Oregon Food Merchants'
association being held there Sun
day. Gates Is a past president of
the association.
"Solving Your Problems" will
be the title of the forum and ac
cording to a release from the
Portland office of the associa
tion, is scheduled to answer any
knotty problems which the dele
pates may have. Gates Is a na
tional committeeman for the as
sociation and has served in
Washington. D. C, on numerous
food committees.
It is understood that other
local food merchants plan to at-,
tend the conference which, ac
cording to the state secretary,
will have a program touching on
all phases of the food distribu
tive industry, with special stress
eh the practical matters of mer
chandising and operating.
Two of the main speakers will
be E. H. Whitaker, Pacific coast
district manager of Swift and
company, and A. J. Falk, presi
dent of the San Francisco Cham
ber of Commerce and general
manager of S and W Fine Foods,
Inc.
Jap Home Front
Told To Whip Up
By United Press
Premier Kuniakl Koiso as
sured the Japanefe today that
Japan's armed forces were
waiting the opportunity "to
crush the enemy forces with a
single 'stroke" but he warned
this blow might be impossible
unless the home front speeded
up production of war goods, par
ticularly aircraft.
Koiso, speaking on a Japa
nese home broadcast recorded
by FCC, said war production
had "just reached a point where
one can harbor hopes and it
certainly can not be said that
this is sufficient."
Barbara 'K. Stone'
To Nev Station
' In Navy Service
Mrs. Barbara K. Stone, seaman
second class in the WAVES, has
just been assigned to her first
active duty station, the U. S.
Naval Air Station, Seattle, yes
terday reported Recruiting Spec
ialist Herbert W. Crain, re-cruiter-in-charge
of the Medford
U. S. Navy Recruiting Substa
tion which handles WAVE ap
plications in this area. Seaman
Stone Is a daughter of Mrs. B.
K. Bevan, 9 King street, Med
ford. Seaman Stone has Just com
pleted basic training and Indoc
trination at the U. S. S. Hunter,
U. S. Naval Training School for
WAVES, New York City.
Previous to enlisting In the
Wednesday, Ort. 11, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL THIBUKE TYTt
Ds Mall m buiio Want Ads.
L.J II III
LJUl
Relieve misery, as most mothers
do. Rub. the
throat, chest
tlme-tostea W VAPORUB
WAVES Seaman Stone was a
reservation clerk with the South
ern Pacific Railway here. She Is
i graduate of St. Mary Rose
high school In Portland.
Seaman Stone is now wearing
the uniform of the armed serv
ices along with her husband,
Donald R. Stone, now serving
with the Third Air Forces over
seas. He has just been awarded
the Air Medal and Seven Onk
Leaf Clusters for outstanding
service.
! Dr. John Jeffries of Boston
financed the first balloon flight
across the English Channel in
1785. He also accompanied the
pilot, Jean Pierre Francois Blan
chard, on the historic crossing.
MONEY
TO LOAN!
On JEWELRY. CAMERAS
end MUSICAL INSTRU
MENTS. Used and unre
deemed lewelry at great
savings
PEOPLES LOAN GO.
129 V E. Main Street
State License P 137
DO YOU
FEEL
NERVOUS
RESTLESS
HIGUSTRUHG
On "CERTAIN DAYS" Of The Month 7
Do functional periodic) disturbance
mako you feel nervous, fidgety, cranky,
irritable. a bit blue, tired, and "dragged
out" -at men, times?
Then start at one try Lydla E.
Plnkham's Vegetable Compound to re
lieve such symptom. Plnkham's Com
pound Is famous not only to relieve
monthly pala but also accompanying
weak, tired, nervous, restless feelings
of this nature.
Plnkham's Compound Helps natvrtt
Taken repulcritf this great medicine
helps build up resistance against such
distress. Also a grand stomachic tonio.
follow label directions. Buy today.
LYDIA E. PINKHAM'S Sffl
n
Your
Help
4 - "S ss P :sl
ilk -vf;
i!' ' S?iJ - i,t . wsS. sfd ; r''i ;;'.':-J
BACK HOME, the headlines rea'd-itf U. S.r
Planes Lost
"The full news account may mention that 00 air
men were shot down with them. But nowhere will
you find mention about how many of those men
landed alive and are now in enemy prison camps.
There Is no way of knowing.
Actually, about 60 per cent of all American air
men shot down over enemy territory survive as
prisoners of war.
Some prison camps are 'devoted exclusively to
airmen. But these camps are little different from the
others. In all, the men behind the barbed wire live
the same empty life. There Is nothing to do but
wait wait and try to hold on to your sanity while
you wait
That's why War Prisoners" Aid was formed. It
provides the wherewithal to buy for prisoners of
war the things that will help them hold on to their
sanity during those empty days of waiting. Books.
Games. Athletic equipment Make-up kits for am
ateur theatricals. Musical instruments.
It takes money to buy these things. More and
more money as more and more of our men wind
up in prison camps. The only way War Prisoners'
Aid can get that money is through your contribu
tion to your local community drive. Your gift is
also shared by war refugees, the U.S.O., Merchant
Seamen, welfare services here at home. Give once
for all these. Give generously.
Give HOW - Give GENEEOUSLY to the
$mm mATlm
Ah WAM FPK
This message In behalf el the
Mediord Community Chest and
the National War Fund publish
ed by the bikers ol . . ,
4
0 and QAEt